Loving robot

Such books - great luck. We recommend it to everyone!

Everything about them is wonderful: the plot, the language, the characters, and the subtext.

In the first book, a robot created to help with housework accidentally ends up on a desert island. The forest dwellers greet Rose (the robot is a girl) with hostility, they are afraid of her, drive her away, avoid her, and show aggression. Rose is not offended or despairing - she does not have such programs - Rose is programmed to survive, and to survive in the wild, she needs to learn from the locals. Therefore, the robot calmly and persistently seeks contact with the island's inhabitants. She watches them, learns camouflage from them, masters the languages ​​of animals, helps them, and even saves their lives. Little by little, the natives get used to her.

And then a sudden event happens - Rose becomes a mother. She adopts a gosling left without parents. Without Rose, this baby would be doomed, but there is little hope for Rose either: there is no parenting program in her microchips. But Rose is no longer alone, everyone who understands at least something about raising children comes to the aid of the young family; everyone who recently avoided the robot cannot indifferently pass by a mother in need of support.

And then an unusually harsh winter comes to the island, and now Roz is the only hope for salvation for many animals, because she knows how to warm up. Finally, Roz becomes a full-fledged member of society, she is needed, she is loved. This would be the end of the fairy tale, but it turns out that all this time Roz was being sought by combat robots programmed to destroy...

The second part of this story is even more... No, I won't say "interesting", both books are equally good. The second part is more dynamic. In it, Rose, from the first to the last page, strives to meet her son-goose, from whom she was separated. She escapes from the farm, where she lives with very good owners, to whom she has become sincerely attached. The owners' children help her escape, having heard the story of her life. She makes her way through forests and mountains, fights her way through a wolf pack, finds herself in a huge city, where patrol robots are waiting for her. She rushes along rooftops, hides in sewers, pretends to be someone else, gets into a shootout - she rushes to her son. The second book also ends with a twist.

These interesting and profound books are intended more for teenagers, but will also be interesting for younger schoolchildren. Of course, it is unlikely that six- to seven-year-olds will ask themselves the questions "who are we and where are we going" after reading these books, but the plot will captivate them. But for 10-12-14 year olds, philosophical questions about the place of man in this world, about relationships with other creatures, about humanity, about the natural and artificial are given here in just the right proportion.